The reason I chose this picture is because I liked the effect in which the brick wall has and I also thought that - as used as a background - the picture would go really well with the genre of my magazine, which is hard rock. I also took inspiration for this picture from another piece of media work that a student had created; they had done a perfume advertisement which used a brick wall in the background - when I saw this I thought it looked really good and it gave me inspiration to recreate the same idea. I also thought that this would make the magazine photograph look really natural instead of using a model against a white background which I think doesn't look right; If I used a model on top of this, the model would fit in with the surroundings. Unfortuantely the image didn't come out as dark as I had hoped seeing as, although I took it at night, the flash was on the camera and I didn't know how to turn it off. A strength of this idea is that it makes the magazine look different and unique and a lot more interesting. A weakness however, is that it may not look professional and, after staring at the image for a wall, it seems asthough the picture taken is not completely straight.
This is a picture of a barcode in which I created online using a barcode generator. I decided to post this picture up seeing as I used it on both my drafts and my final product (front cover). With the barcode I just typed in a lot of random letters - I didn't bother putting a pattern to it or anything. I wanted to create a barcode as it would make my magazine look a lot more professional and conventional.
Here I took another picture which was similar to the brick wall - I wanted to take a second picture which was slighlty different so that I would have more variety when it came to choosing my background. I also decided that I liked the contrast of the gray bricks against the brown ones so I took the picture. A strength of this idea is that it is interesting and the contrast of both colours work well together and also cover lines will show up well on the gray colour because it's light. However a weakness is that the background may be too complicated and I do not like the line going down the middle of the wall.
This photograph went wrong however I decided to post it up seeing as I really liked the concept behind it. I had the idea that I wanted the background to be like the model (band or singer) was on stage performing with the lights shining down. I originally wanted to use the theatre for the backdrop, which my model on stage and the lights darkened with just one light shining down on him playing the guitar. Unfortunately I was not able to use the theatre at any point, however I managed to come across this picture. I was taking photographs at night and realised that the light was on the camera, so I tried to direct the light to be in the top left hand corner (like shown above). I thought that this would create something that looked similar to the lights shining on a stage. Unfortuantely the picture did not turn out how I expected, but I decided to post it as I thought the concept was good. A strength for this picture is that I think the light coming from the side does look quite nice, however weaknesses include that you can see the tiling on the floor, and also the picture doesn't look as though it was taken straight.
I took this photograph because I wanted to use a medium close up of my model for the front cover of my magazine. I uploaded this picture seeing as I used it; I liked how the model looked serious, which relates to my chosen genre - which is rock. I liked the choice of clothing the model wore as he was dressed in black, and his hairstyle resembled the type of stereotypical hairstyles people from the rock genre have. The strength of this photograph is that the type of shot used is versatile as I could use it for a front cover image, a double page spread image, or a thumbnail image on the contents page. A weakness of this photograph is that the model's shirt has an Umbro sign on it, which reflects the exact opposite of my genre; however I could combat this by using the clone tool in Photoshop to erase the logo.
I also took a photograph of my model using a long shot so that I could use this in my contents page seeing as, by looking through my research, I noticed that the majority of shots used for the main image on a contents page was a long shot - particularily of a band. A strength of this shot is that you can see the full size of the model, which makes him appear very tall and inferior, which again relates to my genre as you would expect to see tall, manly, prominent people featured in rock magazines. A weakness of this photograph however is that the models shoes have been cut off, therefore it doesn't look as professional.
I took this photograph as I had originally had an idea for the front cover; I wanted to show my model playing the guitar sat on the stage in the theatre with the lights off (one light shining down on the model) so that it would look as though he was playing a gig - an acoustic gig. However, I could not use the theatre, but I kept this photograph as I felt that it might make a good picture to use on my double page spread, or as a thumbnail image for the contents page. A strength of this picture is that the posing looks really good, as if the model is really getting into his work; it is also quite a stereotypical pose, with the model sat down with the guitar facing upwards, the position of his hands etc. However a criticism of this photograph could be that there are other objects in the background which were not wanted, such as the guitar case, the bag, and you can slightly notice the corner of a bin.
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